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OP Very interesting post, zmjezhd. Here's my bit of knowledge: Tiberians are those who came from Tiberias, which is a city is Israel. Sephardic are those of Spanish or North African descent. Ashkenazim are those who came from middle or northern Europe. Yemenite... well, are those who came from Yemen. I do in fact fall in that category! and yes, there are probably more, but I'm ignorant of those.
Hola Marianna!
I did a little research before posting this actually, and have became aware of the Romance Languages, but I'm still perplexed about one thing:
For instance, take Hebrew, and you'll find that Eliezer Ben Yehuda is considered the founder of modern Hebrew (basing most of the words on Biblical Hebrew AKA Aramaic).
So, in English, were all these words that have French/Latin origin assembled by someone/s? or otherwise; how did they came to be?
Edit; Jackie, I lost you at "coon's age"
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